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The ISO-standard PDF/UA-1 with its clearly-defined requirements promises a new era of accessible document creation. But users of word processing software are often overwhelmed when they try to understand how to fulfill the requirements. This leads to our focus in this paper: how can every document author using Microsoft Word be able to create a PDF/UA compliant PDF document without deep knowledge of PDF accessibility or time-consuming quality assurance and remediation? We present a workflow model which enables in combination with a special Word-Add-In the easy creation of accessible PDF documents without special training.
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Bianchetti, R., Hofer, S., Erle, M. (2014). Implementing PDF/UA in Microsoft Word - How Can PDF/UA Become an Everyday Part of Document Authoring?. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_28
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